Defensive Real Quarterback Rating

Through Week 5 of the 2011 Regular Season

About Defensive Real Quarterback Rating. This is an experimental new stat that we worked on over the past summer. Read more about it right here. The current passer rating is just that, a measure of passing effectiveness. Real Defensive Quarterback Rating measures how opposing quarterbacks perform against a given team not just passing, but also rushing. It also takes into account fumbles, rushes, rushing yards and sack stats to produce a new kind of rating that measures an opposing quarterback’s overall performance with the ball, not just as a passer when he actually releases the ball (which is all that passer rating currently measures.